Explode function

Hi Guys,

Quick one. I'm calling out data from a MYSQL database which has html tags saved in it.

Now I want to output the data from one column until the tag appears, so I use:

$first_para = explode(" ", $row['story_text']);

Trouble is, some tags are in UPPERCASE , so how would I get this explode function to incorporate this as well?

Thanks

Chris

Here is quick and dirty solution:

$first_para = explode("<br>", str_replace('<BR>', '<br>', $row['story_text']);

Cheers Konrad,

I see what you have done, using the inner query to replace with and then use the explode function on , but i'm getting a syntax error:

syntax error, unexpected ';'

On this line:

$first_para = explode("<br>", str_replace('<BR>', '<br>', $row['story_text']);

Can't see where though. Everything seems to match up for me

See if the parentheses match up.

And just in case you run into some data entered by a (heaven forbid) XHTML user, you could use this:

$first_para = explode('<br>', str_replace(array('<BR>', '<BR />', '<br />'), '<br>', $row['story_text']));